Xenforo updated to version 1.1.1

Bram Hengeveld · Nov 23, 2011

We have upgraded the forum software to the latest avalable version. It will add some noticeable features and a lot of bug fixes.

If you have encountered new bug please report them here in this threads

Bram Hengeveld · Dec 10, 2011

That would require to make a lot of styles manually

Good tip though. Maybe when we are bored during the holiday season?!

Rupe Wilson · Dec 10, 2011

I realise you guy have been flat out recently and it looks great.. i thought maybe id missed a option..

R Soul · Dec 12, 2011

Links to threads have changed their format, so links made before the update are no longer valid, e,g. http://www.racedepartment.com/bobs-track-builder/29310-more-tdf-info.html

Is is possible to fix? Unfortunately the thread IDs have changed too, so rearranging the above to the new format gives this: http://www.racedepartment.com/forum/threads/more-tdf-info.29310, but this opens a different thread.

Bram Hengeveld · Dec 12, 2011

Nope, those links cannot be fixed unfortunately. We have build this forum from scratch and imported all the threads and posts into the new forum.

The link structure is unfortunately different. Internal links will have to be manually changed by the people who posted them. Search engines etc like Google are already re-indexing the new structure.

This process will take a few weeks / months as there are quite a few

R Soul · Dec 12, 2011

I have noticed Google is already finding them.
A search for title-from-old-link site:racedepartment.com does the trick, but I don't know how well known that parameter is.

Bram Hengeveld · Dec 13, 2011

Google sometimes has some duplicates I noticed. The new url and the old one with the same title. We have created a 404 page to let those search engines know the page no longer exists. This should increase the results a bit better.

Once the re-indexation is done we can add google search again to the forum which still gives the best result to search on site:racedepartment.com as you already did

stefano.schivari · Dec 13, 2011

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-1-1-1-released.24730/

1.1.1 out,they are working hard.

Peter · Dec 13, 2011

I can't click on the last post( ''17 minutes ago'') with IE9

Bram Hengeveld · Dec 13, 2011

Works fine here with IE9. Are you sure you were logged in (just asking

)?

Peter · Dec 13, 2011

Now I can

Bram Hengeveld · Dec 13, 2011

What did you change?

Peter · Dec 14, 2011

Bram Hengeveld said:
What did you change?

I got this mail ''Introducing RaceDepartment 2.0 with fantastic prizes'' after my post and now it works.

Bram Hengeveld · Dec 14, 2011

Don't think thats related to the problem but I am glad its working for you now

Nico Major · Dec 15, 2011

The old forum had a feature "bookmark forum". That was similar to "Watch thread" but for a whole forum (like the name implies ;-)). I liked it a lot and bookmarked the league forum I was active in, the Race07 Racing Club and some others. Of course, I can use bookmarks in my browser, but they are not independant of browser and location.

Maybe you can put it on your or the software supplier's TODO list. Anyways - thx for all your effort.

Bram Hengeveld · Dec 15, 2011

In vbulletin there was an option called "subscribe to this forum". Is that what you mean?

It was a hidden overlooked function, but a pretty cool one, but not yet supported by xenforo.

Instead they have chosen a more modern way of RSS feeds. On every forum row you will find a RSS icon that you can click and subscribe to.

Nico Major · Dec 16, 2011

Bram Hengeveld said:
In vbulletin there was an option called "subscribe to this forum". Is that what you mean?

Yes exactly.

It was a hidden overlooked function, but a pretty cool one, but not yet supported by xenforo.

I found it

and it was really helpfull. I figured that xenforo does not have it (yet).

Instead they have chosen a more modern way of RSS feeds. On every forum row you will find a RSS icon that you can click and subscribe to.

Ah, OK. Nice as well, but that serves not the same purpose. I liked to have "bookmarks" and some indication of the latest activity without getting lost in many notifications. Maybe you can forward this "request" to the devs of xenforo and maybe one day it will be available ...

Thx